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• v  urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate
• v  cause to move forward with force
• s  markedly effective as if by emotional pressure
  impelling skill as a teller of tales
  an impelling personality

• For "impelling business reasons," Francis James Wideman of West Palm Beach sent the President his resignation as Assistant Attorney General.
• The assumption had impelling logic.
• The only thing impelling into negotiations was the hope that transforming its political relations with its neighbors would secure its long-term survival.

• impel
• force
• propel

News & Articles

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• Secrets of whales' long-distance songs are being unveiled by U.S. Navy's undersea microphones -- but sound pollution ...
  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Why do whales in the North Atlantic Ocean seem to be moving together and coherently? What is impelling them forward. How do they communicate with each other, seemingly over thousands of miles of ocean? And how can this acoustical habitat be protected?
  April 12, 2014 - Cornell News Service

Quotes

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• Jose de Venecia in Manila Bulletin
  The revolution in communications and information technology is speeding economic interdependence and impelling nations to seek amity, mutual help, and political solidarity from like-minded peoples even across the great continents,De Venecia said.
• Anne Rice in The Catholic Review
  I believed that what she'd said so many years ago was precisely the truth,Rice writes. "He was on that altar. And I wanted to go to him, and the impelling emotion was love."
• Mao Zedong in The Australian
  Mao said: "The law of the unity of opposites is the fundamental law of the universe impelling things to move and change."